International Workshop on Disease Mapping in Low-resource Settings: 14-15 Sept

16 March 2017

LASER member and MRC Fellow Dr Emanuelle Giorgi is convening a special 2-day international workshop to focus on the challenges and advances being made in disease mapping in low and middle-income counties.

Hosted by Lancaster University on 14 - 15 September 2017, the multidisciplinary workshop will bring together international statistics and epidemiology experts to discuss the mapping of a wide range of diseases including neglected tropical diseases and malaria. 

Topics of particular interest are:

  • Model-based geostatistics
  • Ecological disease mapping
  • Small-area estimation
  • Historical mapping of infectious diseases
  • Integrating multiple data-sources

The workshop is currently inviting researchers to submit poster abstracts which can be presented during the workshop. 

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